With Germany following in the footsteps of Belgium and Switzerland after announcing new measures that could limit EU job migrant numbers, roughly 10,000 Spaniards on German jobseekers allowance now face expulsion.

Up to 291 Spanish jobseekers receiving unemployment benefits in Belgium were forced to leave the country in 2013, new data published in Spain’s El Mundo newspaper reveals.

This makes Spaniards the third largest group of EU migrants kicked out of Belgium last year after Bulgarians and Romanians, a total of 2,712 citizens labelled as an “excessive burden on the country’s social security system”.

According to Spain’s official work agency, unemployment among Spaniards living in Germany has risen by 49 percent in the last three years.

By the last quarter of 2013, 59,241 Spanish nationals in Germany had a job while 6,592 didn’t.

Approximately 7,027 of those who were working weren’t paying contributions, however.

More importantly, the 10,469 Spaniards on unemployment benefits now face being stripped of their ability to operate freely within Germany.

As is the case already in Belgium, EU nationals with long-term jobseekers allowances aren’t put on a plane and flown back to their home countries, but rather stripped of all state-paid educational or health benefits and not allowed to sign a rental agreement.

EU law states citizens from any member state can move freely within the 26 Schengen area countries but can’t stay to live in one for more than three months unless they have found work, are studying or have sufficient financial means to not be a burden to the state.

The UK is another country looking at curbing its immigration influx, David Cameron recently announcing he would deport those sleeping rough or begging and limit the annual immigrant quota to 75,000.

Even EU migrants with jobs won’t be able to claim benefits after six months unless they prove they have “a job with prospects” or prove they earn at least 150 pounds a week to be legible to social subsidies.